Portfolio
Natural flavours for ready meals, snacks and beverages. Developed at our Southport bench in Queensland, tested in the application kitchen on the same site, and signed off by a flavourist who reads your brief inside one business day.
No contract. We read your brief inside one business day.
About this portfolio
From a midweek ready meal to a Saturday snack run, Aussie and Kiwi makers are working with a real palate. Lemon myrtle through a slow-roast lamb. Finger lime over a Coromandel scallop. Kumara picking up smoke and sweetness across the Tasman. Those are the flavours we build for, on the bench at Southport.
Food and beverage makers who can put those tastes on a shelf at scale, with documentation that lines up with FSANZ, land better on buyer review. That is what the Culinary portfolio is built for.
VKA® Australia is an Australian operation, run by Australians in Southport, Queensland. Every Culinary formulation is developed and tested at the Southport bench, in the application kitchen on the same site, under real processing conditions. The flavour that goes into the product is the flavour the consumer tastes. Behind us sits the VKA group, one of the long-standing flavour houses in the region, with five decades of flavour science. That combination is the point. Flavour for Australia has to be developed and made in Australia. 23 years at the Southport site.
What we offer
Roasted pumpkin, sweet kumara, beetroot, mushroom, sweetcorn and slow-roast tomato. Vegetable flavours for soups, ready meals, sauces and seasoning blends, sampled and adjusted in the Southport application kitchen on the same product format you ship in.
Lemon myrtle, finger lime, davidson plum, riberry, anise myrtle, strawberry gum and wattleseed. Floral, citrus and resinous profiles that give beverages, confectionery and functional foods a true AU and NZ character without the costume.
Tasmanian pepperberry, mountain pepper, native thyme, rosemary, sea salt, smoked paprika, cracked black pepper and the everyday savoury workhorses. Each profile captures the character of the real ingredient as it lands on the plate.
Built for here
Our flavourists work to the food on the shelf and the food on the table across Australia and New Zealand. Weeknight ready meals through to Sunday lunch, the deli case in a major Australian or New Zealand supermarket, the can in the fridge of a Brisbane corner store. That is the palate the portfolio is tuned to.
The result is flavours that read right to AU and NZ consumers, with FSANZ-aligned documentation behind every formulation, not generic approximations.
Talk to us
Send us what you have. A category, a target retailer, a finished competitor product, a rough sensory direction. A flavourist at the Southport bench reads it inside one business day and comes back with a starting point.
No contract. We read your brief inside one business day.
